Movies like Rica

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Rica (1972)
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Rica (1972)
Original name: 混血児リカ
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.
Style: grindhouse
Plot: exploitation, sexploitation, badass female lead, rape, fight, abduction, mistress, organized crime, capitalism, dismemberment, unemployment, woman, pop culture, extortion, treason, mixed race child, drug abuse, eroticism, government corruption, female fight, women fight, catfight, fighting, woman fights a woman
Place: vietnam

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Most similar movies to Rica

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out grindhouse, independent film, realistic and serious films with plots about exploitation, female nudity, rape, sexploitation, martial arts, violence and murder mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Rica: The Chinese Boxer (1970), The Executioner Part II (1984), Sasori in U.S.A. (1997), Women in Cages (1971), Tattooed Flower Vase (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Rica 2: Lonely Wanderer (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. Rica looks into a ship that exploded and everyone who survived this disaster who comes in contact with her ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: exploitation, sexploitation, badass female lead, machine gun, massacre, rape, suicide, karate, knife fight, gunfight, avenger, nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found it's way into the yakuza (crime) societies. A Girl Boss may have a choice between bikes, and between boyfriends. But she has to defend her choices the hard way, as her triumph and power ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: sexploitation, yakuza, boss, exploitation, girl gang, sex scene, topless woman, biker gang, single parent, motorcycle, ransom, car chase ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Chinese Boxer (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lei Ming, a noble young martial arts student who doesn't know the meaning of giving up. He faces a treacherous, blood-thirsty Japanese karate expert, which leads to many memorable battles as well as several unforgettable training sequences.
Style: grindhouse
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, exploitation, asian gangster, kung fu classic, mixed martial arts, sword fight, casino, samurai, sexual assault, artist, gambling ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Yakuza-Busting Girls: Final Death-Ride Battle (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story is about a woman named Asami who is tortured and left for dead by a Yakuza group, only they failed to finish her off, and she staggers back from the grave, literally. Bruised and battered, Asami seeks refuge at her old gang until such time ...
Style: splatter
Plot: yakuza, female fight, sexploitation, monster, martial arts, hot chick, japanese girl, revenge, organized crime, sword, torture, shooting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Executioner Part II (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An L.A. cop and a reporter team up to find a masked serial killer.
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film
Plot: vigilante, murder, rape, revenge, vietnam war, ptsd, prostitution, city, execution, assault, police, violence ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Sasori in U.S.A. (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Japanese lady gets framed for killing her man and is shipped off to prison in California. She escape and seek vengeance against those who wronged them.
Plot: sexploitation, women in prison, superhero, badass female lead, women's prison, lesbian, rape, female nudity, brutality, husband wife relationship, prison, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Streetfighter's Last Revenge (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back.
Style: grindhouse, crime drama, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, karate, kung fu, yakuza, exploitation, guy, mixed martial arts, vigilante, knight, brutality, martial artist, tragic hero ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Story of a Wild Elder Sister: Widespread Lynch Law (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, samurai, martial arts, sexploitation, gambling, exploitation, erotica, revenge, pink film, tattoo, rape, murder ...
Time: 70s
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Women in Cages (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Carol Jeffries is a naive American woman staying in the Philippines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attempts on her life, then ...
Style: grindhouse, action thriller, independent film, biting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, women in prison, prison, female whipping, rape, women's prison, female prisoner, abused woman, sexploitation, jungle, lesbian sex, lesbianism ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Tattooed Flower Vase (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Naomi Tani is as good as ever but the other two protagonists are equally effective and for once the male lead is not some cringing bastard. Quite breathtaking sequences of consensual and non consensual sexual activity and most effective use of ...
Style: erotic
Plot: exploitation, age-gap relationship, erotica, pink film, tattooed woman, sex scene, loneliness, tattoo, haunted by the past, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, past, doll ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Kyoto Connection (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He takes her to his apartment where he brutally rapes her and keeps her hostage and bound in chains. Christina's alluring beauty eventually enchants ...
Style: erotic
Plot: kidnapping, exploitation, rape, martial arts, female nudity, sex scene, woman, sex, bomb, airport, bare breasts, kidnapped woman ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Big Bird Cage (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
Style: grindhouse, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, women in prison, exploitation, sexploitation, blaxploitation, women's prison, gang rape, voyeur, tropical island, violent, woman with a gun, rebellion ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Return of the Street Fighter (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi, but Tsurugi's fight ultimately is ...
Style: grindhouse, crime drama, disturbing, fast, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, medieval, exploitation, kung fu, yakuza, karate, fight, knight, underground, vigilante, mixed martial arts, badass ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Gamblers in Okinawa (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Style: crime drama, grindhouse
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, exploitation, city, japanese man, mafia, mobster, gangster, gang war, hitman, murder, blood ...
Place: okinawa, okinawa japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Death Journey (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred Williamson) is a no-nonsense tough guy. He buddies up with the witness, an accountant, and they hit the ...
Style: grindhouse, detective, independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, train, urban, ford mustang, electrocution, car chase, airport, witness, african american, thrown from a train, knife attack ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.7
 3K
Sex and Fury (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on ...
Style: grindhouse, erotic, sensual, cult classic, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, female yakuza, nun, martial arts, revenge, sexploitation, murder, exploitation, erotica, forced sex, bondage, gambler ...
Time: 1900s, 19th century, 1880s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Black Alley Cats (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Wanting revenge on a street gang for a rape attack, four young girls get together, take kung-fu lessons, learn how to shoot, form a gang called the Black Alley Cats and search out the gang that attacked them.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, rape and revenge, gang, martial arts, lesbian seduction, voyeurism, lesbian, bare breasts, sex, lesbianism, rape, gang rape ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: After housewife Ellen is raped by the janitor she kills him and hits the road. She travels to the Big City where she is repeatedly used and abused. And when she finally finds a safe place to live her landlady's son turns out to be a detective, ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, slasher, realistic, serious ...
Plot: sexploitation, exploitation, female exploitation, janitor, rape, murder, women, freak, erotica, fugitives, dangerous attraction, on the run ...
Time: 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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New Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701 (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine is given a fifteen year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. She's ...
Plot: women in prison, prison, badass female lead, female prisoner, superhero, sexploitation, exploitation, rape and revenge, rape, female protagonist, violence, women's prison ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic, murderous student discipline brigade and corrupt politicians over the murder/suicide of one of their friends. They're ...
Style: erotic, disturbing, grindhouse, controversial
Plot: lesbian sex, sexploitation, exploitation, erotica, pink film, martial arts, girl power, schoolgirl, yakuza, lesbian, female nudity, lesbianism ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.3
 401
Killpoint (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An L.A. cop investigating the rape and murder of his wife traces the crime to a psycho biker gang that smuggles guns. He teams up with an FBI agent to stop them and catch his wife's killers.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: rape, murder, cop, hand to hand combat, bodybuilder, nightclub, smuggling, martial arts, fistfight, weapons, police, gangster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Kung Fu Executioner (1981)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Li, a martial artist, returns home to find out that his father is being harassed by a crime syndicate. Together with an American kung fu champion he vows revenge when the syndicate kills his father.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic
Plot: exploitation, fight, bare breasts, violence, female nudity, jeet kune do, criminal syndicate, katana, swordsman, sword fight, martial arts, kendo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
China O'Brien II (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This time China O'Brien has trouble with a dealer who puts a prize on her head because she had spoiled an important drug deal of his. But all the world's criminals will not be enough to catch up with China O'Brian, one of the masters ...
Style: independent film
Plot: female martial artist, martial arts, female fight, fight, kung fu, drug dealer, violence, kickboxing, female protagonist, taekwondo, fighting
Time: year 2016, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.
Style: crime drama, psychedelic
Plot: sexploitation, yakuza, exploitation, rival gang, kidnapping, biker gang, lsd, drug deal, girl gang, nightclub singer, escape, samurai ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.6
 16K
Lady Snowblood (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. ...
Style: grindhouse, suspenseful, bloody, exciting, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, martial arts, revenge, prison, childbirth, rape and revenge, murder, female killer, female protagonist, samurai, female assassin, rape ...
Time: 19th century, year 1973, 1800s, 1870s, 1890s
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Death Collector (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, crime drama, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, exploitation, mobster, twin towers, serial killer, italian mafia, crime wave, gangster, hitman, kids in trouble, disorder ...
Time: 70s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Scorpion: Double Venom (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: Japan
Story: Nami Matsushima, a former doctor, is put in prison for murdering one of the men who raped and killed her sister. Now, faced with violent and lecherous prison gangs, an aggressively amorous warden, and with a friend on death row, Nami must steel ...
Plot: women in prison, sexploitation, badass female lead, nudity, dead sister, sister, scalpel, revenge, blood, women's prison, death, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Pool Without Water (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The man has a monotonous job punching tickets for the Japanese railway. One night, while walking home, he saves Jun from getting raped by two hoodlums. A few days later, he sneaks into her house but gets discovered. Later, as he's watches his ...
Plot: underground, exploitation, erotic fantasy, rape, eroticism, nudity, photography, drunken man, children, attempted rape, insect, caught having sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Death of a Snowman (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Africa
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A white cop and a black reporter join forces to investigate apparent vigilante killings in the South African underworld.
Style: grindhouse
Plot: exploitation, blaxploitation, drug lord, reporter, mafia, afrikaans, illegal drugs, sexploitation, police officer, interracial friendship, vigilantism, journalist ...
Time: 70s
Place: africa, johannesburg south africa, south africa, new york, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.9
 641
Ginger (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The police suspect that a drug and forced-prostitution ring is behind the recent spate of kidnappings and disappearances, but so far they've been unable to infiltrate the suspects gang. To break the case, they recruit Ginger, a young woman from ...
Style: grindhouse, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: erotica, undercover, prostitute, gang, female fight, exploitation, revenge, murder, women, blaxploitation, female protagonist, rape and revenge ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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